Preserved-fabric display.



A. FWLBR.

PRESERVBD FABRIC DISPLAY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNM, 191s.

Patented 0013.7, 1918.

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silken fabrics.

AMELIA FOWLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PRESERVED-FABRIC DISPLAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. "Z, 1913?.

Original application le. February 1, 1913, Serial No. 745,598. Divided and this application filed. Tune 5,

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, AMELIA FowLnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, county of Suffolk, Common* wealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Preserved-Fabric Display, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the art of preparing historic fabrics for preservation and particularly to the treatment of flags, ban ners and the like in such a manner as to make of these perishable articles a practically imperishable display which will have all of its original characteristics and features preserved.

In my prior application Serial No. 745,598, filed February 1, 1913, I set forth in detail my method of producing such an article and discussed therein the necessity of preserving such relics and trophies. As was pointed out in that application, battle flags and banners are peculiarly fated to self-destruction from their own nature as This has been known for so long a time and the attempts to preserve ancient flags and trophies have been So frequent and so unsuccessful that it is not necessary to point out the danger nor the diiiiculty which attends the problem.

In my present application which is a di vision of that above noted, I shall make particular reference to the article produced by my method which may be a flag, banner or any other article of like nature which patriotic obligation or personal pride requires to be preserved.

As illustrative of my invention, I have shown as an article preserved in this manner, a pennant of conventional type.

My invention briefly stated consists in producing a continuous enveloping mesh of thread within which is embodied the article to be preserved together with a suitable Strengthening member.

Throughout the specification which will discuss the treated article at length, like reference numerals are employed to indicate the parts of the drawing which are corre spondingly designated.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a view of my enveloping mesh. Fig. 2 is a pennant illustrated as enveloped in this mesh with a suitable backing. Fig. 3 is an edge view of said pennant and Fig. 4 is a detail show- Serial No. 771,922.

ing the enveloping mesh inclosing a por tion of the backing and the flag.

The preserved article consists in the form shown, of a flag 1 which for the purposes of illustration may be supposed to be a striped pennant of three colors and which had been riddled and tattered by service and storm. This flag together with a suitable strengthening piece 2 of substantially the same size, have been embodied in a continuous mesh of thread 3. This mesh in its envelopment of the iag 1 and the strengthening piece 2 penetrates both of these elements at regular intervals at substantially uniformly spaced points corresponding to the corners of a rectangle of from to t of an inch on a side.

In practice, the flag 1 is disposed with all its parts in proper arrangement upon a strengthening member of Irish linen or some similar enduring fabric upon which it is smoothly pressed, preferably by an electric iron. The two elements are then embodied within the mesh 3 which is formed in continuous interlocking chains which are developed in laterally extended superimposed rows with the loop of each cross stitch engaged by the penetrating loop of that stitch in the row next below and which has a relation to it. The mesh is started preferably in the upper corner and worked laterally across the article in a row which is then intermeshed by the next lower row as that is developed.

My invention is capable of some modifica-- tion both as to the materials used and as to the form of the stitch employed but I advise the rigid observance of the features herein set forth as the same have been proved by extensive use to be completely satisfactory and as the articles to which my invention applies are usually of too sacred a nature to make experimentation advisable.

What I, therefore, claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent is:

1. An article of the class described comprising a textile strengthening member, a fabric to be displayed and an enveloping mesh of thread formed of interconnected lines of open stitches inclosing said strengthening member and said fabric, said strengthening member and the fabric to be displayed being held in immovable contact by the penetration of the stitches of the mesh.

2. An Varticle of the class described. eomtion of the stitches of the mesh, the thread 1U prising a textile Stre'gthe'niiig member, a of 'said meshrbeinglocally of the color of plural colored fabric to be display'edvanvd the fabric to be displayed.

an enveloping mesh of thread formed of in-y ln t'es'tinoriy whereof I afliX my Signatercorm-ected lines of open stitches inelos- "ture in presence of two Witnesses.

ing said strengthening member 'and said AMELIA FOVVLER. fabric, saidvstrenglieriing member andthe TWitnesses: Y Y

plural colored fabric to be displayed being'g VICTORIA LOWDEN,

held in immovable Contact by the peneci'a-y MARION C. HOBBS.

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